| George Barrell Emerson - Plants - 1846 - 614 pages
...spring, and recovers its position; so as in peace and war it is a wood in highest request. In short, so useful and profitable is this tree, next to the...of other land, since in as many years it would be more worth than the land itself." There are three species of ash growing in Massachusetts, — the... | |
| Charles Dickens - English literature - 1870 - 632 pages
...recovers its position ; so that in peace or war it is a wood in highest request. In short, so nseful and profitable is this tree (next to the oak), that every prudent lord of a manor should employ an acre of ground into ash or acorns, to every twenty acres of other land, since in as many years it... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1871 - 378 pages
...spring and recovers its position; so that in peace or war it is a wood in highest request. In short, so useful and profitable is this tree (next to the...oak), that every prudent lord of a manor should employ an acre of ground into ash or acorns to every twenty acres of other land, since in as many years it... | |
| Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1896 - 480 pages
...spring and recovers its position; so as in peace and war it is a wood in highest request. In short so useful and profitable is this tree, next to the...years it would be worth more than the land itself."* The above quaint quotation seems most fully to illustrate the importance of tiie ash to the yeoman... | |
| Julia Ellen Rogers - Trees - 1905 - 816 pages
...and stocks for tools, spade trees, carts, ladders. ... In short so good and profitable is this tree that every prudent Lord of a Manor should employ one...of other land, since in as many years it would be more worth than the land itself." William Cobbett gives the ash a good character. He commends the keys... | |
| Architecture - 1905 - 494 pages
...in his " Sylva, or a Discourse on Forest Trees," speaks of the ash in 1664 as follows : " In short, so useful and profitable is this tree, next to the...oak, that every prudent lord of a manor should employ an acre of ground with ash to every twenty acres of other land, since in as many years it would be... | |
| Julia Ellen Rogers - Trees - 1909 - 336 pages
...ancient times. Every tool, vehicle, and implement of the farmer and mechanic were made of this wood. " Every prudent lord of a manor should employ one acre...ground with ash to every twenty acres of other land. In as many years it would be worth more than the land itself." The seeds of ash trees were used for... | |
| Julia Ellen Rogers - Trees - 1909 - 326 pages
...prudent lord of a manor should employ one acre of ground with ash to every twenty acres of other land. In as many years it would be worth more than the land itself." The seeds of ash trees were used for fattening pigs. They were also used as remedies for many diseases.... | |
| Pennsylvania. Department of Forests and Waters - Forests and forestry - 1896 - 472 pages
...spring and recovers its position; so as in peace and war it is a wood in highest request. In short so useful and profitable is this tree, next to the...ash to every twenty acres of other land, since in as man v yf-aiv it would be worth more than the land itself."* The above quaint quotation seems most fully... | |
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